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A Logan Heights parish is opening a new immigrant resource center to address what it views as the community’s “urgent and changing needs” in response to the Trump administration’s continued mass deportation campaign.
The Pope Francis Center is described as a “welcoming and supportive space” that will connect immigrants with available resources from government and nonprofit groups, as well as offer spiritual and emotional support, such as counseling and escorts to court hearings and other appointments.
The center will work with the American Bar Association’s Immigration Justice Project in San Diego and other local organizations to provide legal services.
The center is the latest effort by Our Lady of Guadalupe to serve its large immigrant congregation and others in the community.
The parish used to run an off-site migrant shelter at a separate location nearby for more than a year. Many of the migrants were asylum seekers who had recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border and wanted to settle in San Diego County. Around this time last year, the shelter was at capacity.
That all changed when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump Read Entire Article
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